Ice: Nature and Culture

Ice: Nature and Culture pdf

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Klaus Dodds

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Klaus Dodds es profesor de geopolítica en Royal Holloway, Universidad de Londres y miembro de la Academia de Ciencias Sociales. Completó su doctorado en la Universidad de Bristol en 1994, y luego ocupó un puesto en la Universidad de Edimburgo y luego se unió a Royal Holloway. Ha tenido una beca Visiting Erskine en Gateway Antarctica, Universidad de Canterbury (2002) y ha sido miembro visitante en St Cross College, Universidad de Oxford (2010-11) y St Johns College, Universidad de Oxford (2017-18). En 2005 recibió el Premio Philip Leverhulme de Geografía y en 2016 Leverhulme Trust le otorgó una beca de investigación principal (2017-2020) para un proyecto relacionado con el "Ártico global". Ha publicado numerosos libros y artículos relacionados con la geopolítica y la gobernanza de las regiones polares, así como con la política cultural del hielo. Estos incluyen: The Scramble for the Poles (2016), Ice: Nature and Culture y The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). Se ha desempeñado como asesor especializado de dos comités parlamentarios selectos; el Comité Selecto sobre el Ártico de la Cámara de los Lores (2014-5) y la investigación sobre el Ártico del Comité de Auditoría Ambiental de la Cámara de los Comunes (2018). En 2019, fue nombrado representante del Reino Unido del Grupo de Trabajo Social y Humano del IASC. Ha visitado la Antártida en cuatro ocasiones distintas y ha viajado mucho por la región del Ártico.

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Ice: Nature and Culture pdf por Klaus Dodds

In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors—and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water to our blue home. But our outlook need not be cosmic to see ice’s importance. Here today and gone tomorrow in many parts of the temperate world, ice is a perennial feature of polar and mountainous regions, where it has long shaped human culture. But as climates change, ice caps and glaciers melt, and waters rise, more than ever this frozen force touches at the core of who we are. As Dodds reveals, ice has played a prominent role in shaping both the earth’s living communities and its geology. Throughout history, humans have had fun with it, battled over it, struggled with it, and made money from it—and every time we open our refrigerator doors, we’re reminded how ice has transformed our relationship with food. Our connection to ice has been captured in art, literature, movies, and television, as well as made manifest in sport and leisure. In our landscapes and seascapes, too, we find myriad reminders of ice’s chilly power, clues as to how our lakes, mountains, and coastlines have been indelibly shaped by the advance and retreat of ice and snow. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Ice is an informative, thought-provoking guide to a substance both cold and compelling.

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